The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Feb. 26-28, Stambaugh Studio Theatre | Freed Center

MEDIA RELEASE__Considered one of the most famous plays in modern theatre, The Glass Menagerie has received multiple awards, including Best American Play and Outstanding Revival, and experienced several adaptations in film, radio and television along with three Broadway-rivals. Often deemed Williams' semi-autobiographical story, this play revolves around a family consisting of a mother and her two adult children as they struggle to adapt to a rapidly changing world during the Great Depression, with hopes that a gentleman caller will be the answer to their problems. 

As explained by ONU Assistant Professor of Theatre and the show's director, James Savage, Jr., "One of the most fascinating aspects of the play is that it is a memory play. Meaning that we are seeing each character and event from our narrator’s perspective, not as they really were, which creates a non-realistic, poetic and intimate theatrical experience. This allows us to see each character trapped by their own unfulfilled dreams, insecurities, and illusions. Further allowing us, the audience, to see a bit of ourselves in each of these characters."